By Simon Sharwood
Publication Date: 2026-05-17 23:39:00
Security
Multiple researchers using the same tools to find the same bugs causes “unnecessary pain and pointless work.”
Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds has explained that the project’s security mailing list has become “almost completely unmanageable” because several researchers are using AI to find bugs and then filling the list with duplicate reports.
Torvalds used his weekly State of the Kernel post to introduce Release Candidate 4 for Linux 7.1 and report “fairly normal” progress toward a full release.
He then directed kernelistas to the project’s documentation, which he said “might be worth highlighting” since “the ongoing flood of AI reports has essentially made the security list almost unmanageable, with huge duplication as different people find the same things using the same tools.”
“People spend all their time trying to forward things to the right people or saying, ‘That was…’
